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Global Economic Elites and the New Spirit of Capitalism

Careers and Collective Mindsets of Economic Elites Compared

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  1. Markus Pohlmann

    1. Max-Weber-Institut für Soziologie, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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  2. Friederike Elias

    1. Heidelberg, Germany

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  • International comparative study
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Is a new spirit of capitalism emerging as a result of neoliberal adjustments in the global economy? 
The internationalization of management and its comprehensive neoliberals imprint fall short of the assumptions represented by globalization theory. 
Empirical data on the life trajectories and action orientations of CEOs from leading industrial companies in nine countries across Europe, Asia, and Latin America indicate that local institutional frameworks, diverse regional challenges, and historically embedded cultural influences exert more significant influence than global trends. Different strategies and structures have been identified based on problem-centered interviews with top executives, and they are made accessible for the first time in English for comparative purposes.

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Common framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: Economic Neoliberalism—A New Spirit of Capitalism?

      • Markus Pohlmann, Friederike Elias
      Pages 3-23

    3. Research Perspective: The “Spirit” of Capitalism and its Supporting Classes

      • Markus Pohlmann
      Pages 25-46

    4. The Operationalization of the Study: Global Carriers and Neoliberal Thinking

      • Markus Pohlmann, Friederike Elias
      Pages 47-60

    5. Collective Mindsets: How to Analyze Neoliberal Thinking

      • Markus Pohlmann, Stefan Bär, Elizângela Valarini
      Pages 61-89

  3. Country studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. Germany: On the Verge of a New Capitalist Spirit?

      • Markus Pohlmann, Alexander Fürstenberg, Friederike Elias
      Pages 93-140

    3. The Establishment of Global Elites with Neoliberal Mindsets? Liberal Bureaucratization in Switzerland

      • Julian Klinkhammer
      Pages 141-181

    4. Neoliberal State Capitalism in China: Integration Without Opening

      • Yuanyuan Liu
      Pages 183-215

    5. Modern Family Capitalism in South Korea

      • Jaok Kwon
      Pages 217-250

    6. Japan’s Flashback to Traditional Capitalism

      • Jaok Kwon
      Pages 251-279

    7. All at the Same Time: Coexistence of Tradition and Modernity in India

      • Jivanta Schöttli
      Pages 281-320

    8. Restructuring Modernity: The Hong Kong Banking Sector

      • Kristina Höly
      Pages 321-372

    9. Traditional Modernity: The Cultural Imprint of the Brazilian Economy

      • Elizangela Valarini
      Pages 373-418

    10. Global and Bankrupt—Argentina’s Fragmented Integration into Global Capitalism

      • Friederike Elias
      Pages 419-458
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Max-Weber-Institut für Soziologie, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Markus Pohlmann

  • Heidelberg, Germany

    Friederike Elias

About the editors

​Prof. Dr. Markus Pohlmann is Professor of Organizational Sociology, specializing in organization and social structure, as well as organizational crime at Max-Weber-Institute of Heidelberg University.Dr. Friederike Elias has been a research associate at the Max Weber Institute for Sociology at the University of Heidelberg from 2014 - 2023. She conducted research and taught there in the fields of organizational and labor sociology, with a special focus on the topics of management and digitalization. Since summer 2023, she is administrative director of the Josefine and Eduard von Portheim Foundation Heidelberg.

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